Break apart a bitmap
Breaking apart a bitmap separates the pixels in the image into discrete areas that can be selected and modified separately. When you break apart a bitmap, you can modify the bitmap with the Flash drawing and painting tools. Using the Lasso tool with the Magic Wand modifier, you can select areas of a bitmap that are broken apart.
To paint with a broken-apart bitmap, select the bitmap with the Eyedropper tool and apply the bitmap as a fill with the Paint Bucket tool or another drawing tool.
Break a bitmap apart
Change the fill of areas of a broken-apart
bitmap
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Select the Lasso
tool, click the Magic Wand modifier, and set the following options:.
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For Threshold, enter a value between 1 and 200 to define how closely the color of adjacent pixels must match to be included in the selection. A higher number includes a broader range of colors. If you enter 0, only pixels of the exact same color as the first pixel you click are selected.
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For Smoothing, select an option to define how much the edges of the selection are smoothed.
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- To select an area, click the bitmap. To add to the selection, continue clicking.
- To fill the selected areas in the bitmap, select the fill to use.
- To apply the new fill, select the Paint Bucket tool and click anywhere in the selected area.
Use the Eyedropper tool to apply
a fill
- Select the Eyedropper tool and click the broken-apart bitmap on the Stage. The Eyedropper tool sets the bitmap to be the current fill and changes the active tool to the Paint Bucket.
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Do one of the following:
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To apply the bitmap as a fill, click an existing graphic object with the Paint Bucket tool.
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Select the Oval, Rectangle, or Pen tool, and draw a new object. The object is filled with the broken-apart bitmap.
To scale, rotate, or skew the bitmap fill, use the Paint Bucket tool.
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